#c: Khan

[dirtykhan]

Starter | Muse: Khan Noonien Singh

Once more the silence of his long-needed rest was so violently interrupted. He had been dreaming something peaceful, when the sound of alarms had interrupted the cryogenic process, and flooded his senses with  a new sort of panic. With a heavy gasp, air flooded into his lungs so rapidly, and his hands reached for the side as the tube opened for him. He sat up, swinging his legs over the edge, and gripping the edges with white-knuckled fingers. 

Whatever had woken him would be dealt with, as soon as his vision stopped seeing stars. He was in a daze, as the grogginess of cryosleep still held him back, and he slowly was coming back to himself. That gaze swept the area, but his vision cleared only momentarily on a figure not too far from where he was. Rather close, even, but he couldn’t see him clearly in this room’s low light, and instinctively he tensed so hard. Flashes of old memories resurfacing, and even that old Admiral’s voice echoed in his skull. He waved them away, trying to focus on the present.

  “...Who’s there...?” His voice was deep, and broken from lack of use in several months. Or years? He wasn’t sure at this point.

| @kingofthewebxxx |

[martyrbat]

[ID: Bruce Wayne and Minhkhoa Khan fighting in the snow. Minhkhoa kicks Bruce in the chest as his dialogue has been edited to be a post by @/electrificata. The post reads: “i am NOT gaslighting you. i am lying to you. gaslighting implies a level of effort that i am simply not putting in. deceiving you does not require much”. END ID]

[simplepotatofarmer]

my stupid little super hero au ideas:

- c!techno is a super hero that goes by 'protesilaus' - everyone assumes he wears a pig mask which is true but also he's just a pigman. he only wears the mask 'cause he thinks it's funny - c!dream is a villain and people call him 'nightmare' - he's a former hero who had a sort of slow downturn because of a few mishaps with other heroes - he keeps coming up with increasingly convoluted ways to capture techno which gets him labeled as like, techno's main, personal villain - techno actually doesn't mind being captured because dream's pretty chill and half the time he just seems to want to talk about whatever nonsense has come up in his head - they both have a crush on each other but absolutely have not admitted to it at any point - c!quackity is deeply desperate to paint himself as c!techno's friend and sidekick which techno is at first ambivalent towards but as quackity's questionable tactics come more and more to light, he starts to put a lot of distance between them - c!sam is a cop

[vivilingriphyn]

The Sham | LM | Character References

LM = "Lost Memories"

The main lil family is finally done Q wQ) i can finally work on comic scenes for em while I also work on the other characters redesigns,

If you're curious who I'll be redesigning next for my AU, here's the chronological order on who I'll most likely be redesigning next

•Echo Zane (Island Guardian)

•Tai-D (Island Guardian)

•Arin

•Lloyd

•Kai

•Nya

•Zane

•Cole

•Sora

•Wyldfyre

This is the list for now, which will change depending on if I suddenly get a sudden vision in my head and begin imagining a scene for the character(s) or if someone asks me to do that character in my AU lmao

tbh since there're two timelines for this AU there should be two versions for each character one for Origins and for Lost Memories but I'm gonna be working on Lost Memories first since well that's what I'm most motivated on at the moment.

Anywho of you read this far. Here's a lil doodle of these three.

[xmenuniverse]

Kamala Khan in Ms. Marvel - Mutant Menace #1 (2024), art by Scott Godlewski.

[eyeoftheheart]

Young Girl Reading the Quran by Osman Hamdi Bey

According to the Sufi tradition, there are three essential books through which the seeker comes to know the Divine: the Book of the Universe, the Book of the Soul, and the Book of Revelation. Each of these books offers a unique mode of divine communication, and only when they are read together can one begin to perceive the full meaning of divine revelation.

The Book of the Universe is the outer scripture—the vast, living text of creation itself. Every star, every tree, every drop of water, and every breath of wind speaks of the One. Nature is not a mute backdrop, but a sacred manuscript, constantly unfolding the signs (ayat) of God for those who have eyes to see and hearts to understand.

The Book of the Soul is the inner scripture—our own being, heart, and consciousness. The soul is both mirror and mystery, reflecting the divine light while concealing its deepest essence. To read this book is to undertake the inner journey, the path of self-knowledge, which is ultimately the path to knowledge of God. As the Sufi aphorism goes, “He who knows himself, knows his Lord.”

The Book of Revelation is the received scripture—the holy texts passed down through the prophets. It is the luminous guidance given in human language, calling us to remember, to awaken, to return. It is the divine speech made manifest in history.

To read any one of these books in isolation is to grasp only a fragment of the truth. The Book of Revelation without the living world becomes abstract; the Book of the Universe without the soul becomes meaningless; the Book of the Soul without revelation risks delusion. But together, they form a sacred trinity of knowledge—external, internal, and transcendent. Together, they unveil the wholeness of the divine message and invite the seeker into a unified vision of Reality.

Seeds of Contemplation:

“There are in fact three grand revelations: the cosmos, the human state, and religions — all three of which Islam sees as "books." There is, first of all, the cosmic book to be read and deciphered. Then there is the inner book of the soul, which we carry within ourselves. And finally, there are the sacred scriptures which have been sent by God through His Mercy to guide humanity throughout the ages and which are the foundations of various religions and keys for reading the other two books, that of the cosmos and that of the soul.”

~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Heart of Islam

“To the eye of the seer every leaf of the tree is a page of the holy book that contains divine revelation, and he is inspired every moment of his life by constantly reading and understanding the holy script of nature.”

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, Vol. 1, The Way of Illumination

“Just as the Quran and other scriptures are collections of God's "signs" or "verses" (ayat), so also the whole universe is a vast collection of God's signs and verses. In effect, God creates the universe by revealing three books - the universe, the human self, and scripture. In each, He reveals His signs and writes out His words.”

~ William C. Chittick, On the Cosmology of Dhikr

“Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it, and your remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire Universe. You are indeed the evident book, by whose alphabet the hidden becomes manifest. Therefore you have no need to look beyond yourself. What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.”

~ Imam Ali

[teklarain]

physically in my room. mentally a brunette soprano in a parisian opera house with an angel of music who’s absolutely obsessively enamored with her.

[nerdywriter36]

Heaven Is Not Fit to House a Love Like You and I Chapter 2: If I Could Hold You For a Minute

AO3

Part two of this LND/Kay mash-up universe is completed and posted for your viewing pleasure! This is actually going to end up being three parts (say thank you to @brendadaaedestler for that), so I will be working on the third and final part soon. I hope you enjoy this part, because I certainly enjoyed writing it!

[random-dragon-exe]

This is such a shit post but in Dead End we have:

Crushing

Crushes

And crushed

[thelawrenceboy]

Erik: I’m very upset and there is nothing you can do to make me feel better.

Nadir:

Erik: No.

Nadir:

Erik: Don’t.

Nadir: *brings Christine into the room*

Erik, softly and fighting a smile: Fuck

[marvelforged]

"This is the worst day of my life."

[anghraine]

Can't lie, I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the representation of Kirk in The Wrath of Khan (yes, a great movie in many ways, and internally to the film it's a compelling arc, but—). The film persistently presents Kirk as a man who has refused to truly face death throughout his life thus far, but instead evaded and tricked and outmaneuvered his obstacles in such a way that he only accepts victory and has never had to really contend with death and serious loss.

It's interesting as a character concept and executed well within the film, but the more I think about it, the more absolutely baffled I am by it as an interpretation of James T. Kirk specifically. As a refresher, these are some highlights (by no means exhaustive) from Kirk's life in TOS:

The obvious one: at age 13, Kirk survived starvation and genocide in the colony he lived in to become one of only nine surviving eyewitnesses. He remained markedly grim into young adulthood (Kirk as a very young man is described as severe and somber across multiple episodes). He discovers in the first season that someone has been methodically killing the other survivors of the genocide. Early in the relevant episode, he has already become the eldest of only two remaining eyewitnesses, and spends the whole episode carrying the weight of stopping the murders and remembering enough to finally see justice done (and perhaps avenge the dead).

In S1, he gets stranded in 1930 and falls deeply in love with a principled pacifist/social activist who loves the stars as much as him. He has a very sweet, romantic courtship with her, only to discover that she has to die young to prevent a Nazi hellscape future (it makes sense in context). Kirk desperately hopes they can find another way, but in the end, he faces reality and helps Spock prevent McCoy from saving her life. He ends the episode obviously devastated.

In literally the next episode, he finds the dead body of his brother Sam (his only sibling; Sam, his wife Aurelan, and their young sons were all present to support Kirk when he formally received command of the Enterprise, and he seems quite close to them). Kirk tries to save his sister-in-law and nephews from the same excruciating death that Sam suffered, but they aren't fast enough to save Aurelan and, like her husband, she dies in anguish.

In S2, a fellow starship commander and friend of Kirk's who is grief-stricken after the deaths of his entire crew launches a suicide run at a largely invincible, planet-destroying monstrosity. Kirk begs him, "Matt. Matt, listen to me. You can't throw your life away like this" but fails to convince him.

Also in S2, there's a whole episode about Kirk's intense guilt over an attack he survived at age 23 that killed 200 fellow crewmen and a captain he was devoted to. Kirk has spent the last 11 years believing all of this was the result of a two-second hesitation on his part (records of the time indicate he's wrong, as does the evidence within the episode, but he's so haunted by surviving yet another slaughter that for much of the episode he can't really accept the reality that nothing he could have done would have made a difference).

In another episode, the entire crew of the Enterprise shows up just in time to witness, but not prevent, the deaths of 400 Vulcans. Later, Kirk fully believes Spock has died heroically, and in the midst of disaster, takes care to leave a record of the highest commendation to Spock in case he himself dies.

There's another episode where intergalactic conquerors start transforming Kirk's crew into cubes of salt and they straight up destroy the cube "containing" a dutiful yeoman simply to punish Kirk. His log of the incident concludes: "I can't forget the picture of Yeoman Thompson crushed to a handful of dust."

In one of the various Kirk vs. AI episodes (and in my opinion, the best one), the AI forcibly installed on the Enterprise takes control and through a programming error, ends up wiping out another Starfleet ship with hundreds of people on it. Kirk is horrified and angry, and sets about trying to find some way to keep the AI-supercharged Enterprise from killing the thousand or so other Starfleet crew still out there, even if it means the deaths of many members of his own crew. They have so little power after regaining control that he can't communicate with the other Starfleet vessels, and takes the massive risk to his and his crew's lives of lowering all of the Enterprise's shields to signal peaceful intent.

It's honestly hard to overstate the degree of repeated horrific losses that mark his entire life. The show was designed to not require knowledge from any other episode to watch a current one, so it rarely references specific events in other episodes, and continuity instead tends to come from persistent character traits or development. And for Kirk, one of his most persistent TOS traits is white-knuckling through horrific losses he cannot prevent (and sometimes has to enable) over and over and over again.

J and I talked about it a little, and about ways to try and make some sense out of this characterization ... like, J pointed out that Kirk has endured many horrific losses, but his relationship with Spock specifically is a unique kind of sanctuary in his life and that's something he couldn't face losing. And that's true enough, but it's not really my feeling that this is what WOK is saying at all; this is not presented IMO as a quality of his relationship with Spock individually, but as a major element of his character. He refuses to accept the possibility of losing in general, he says he was always able to trick or maneuver his way out of confronting death and loss (?????????????), etc. The more I think about it, the less sense it makes to me beyond an interpretation of a kind of pop culture-inflected idea of Kirk rather than anything he experienced in TOS.

[martyrbat]

[ID: Bruce Wayne and Minhkhoa Khan breaking up in the rain. Bruce is in normal civilian clothes while Khoa has a white cloak on and a mask that hides his eyes. Khoa persuades, “We'll start in a small city in Southeast Asia, and systematically dismantle its criminal underworld. Out all the corrupt politicians. And then we'll go to the next, and the next. We'll build a high-tech base of operations that moves with us. We'll live well off the coffers of the gangs we dismantle. We'll expand from there. In time, maybe we could even tackle a city like Gotham. Not like boys, but like men at the peak of our skills.” Bruce simply tells him, “No.” Minhkhoa points an accusatory finger at him as his angry response has been edited to be a post by @/egirlbutternubs that reads, “But babe you love being gaslit.” END ID]

[brendadaaedestler]

Can't Repeat the Past? Why, of Course You Can!

Read my new one shot on ao3!

The Great Gatsby AU. Nadir Khan has recently moved into a cottage in West Egg. He quickly finds himself wrapped up in the affairs of his mysterious neighbor, Mister Y, and the man's mysterious romantic connections with an old friend, Christine de Chagny.

I wrote this years ago, but I was requested by @rose-margaritas and @erik-carierre to post it on ao3 after a discussion we had, so I dig through my docs and gave it an edit to post for y'all! I hope everyone enjoys!!

[vivilingriphyn]

The Sham | Lost Memories | Khan

C!Nadakhan will be referred to as Khan in from now on, especially on Lost Memories but not with Origins especially on writing unless the timeline in Origins is after Jay gave C!Nadakhan the Nickname or after.

Jay was inside his office, bored and held no motivation whatsoever to fill in all the paperwork he had been putting off, desperate for a distraction Jay turned to Khan. “so… if you're a ghost… Does that mean that's what you looked like when you died? Or can you change your appearance like y’know make yourself into all big and scary?”

Khan narrows its hollow eyes at Jay, placing a hand on its hip and sighed. “Again I am not a Ghost. but… yes I can change my appearance just as you described as big and scary”

Jay's eyes widened before they began to sparkle with mischief. “Really?” He asked almost excitedly as if this was a perfect distraction for him to not do his paperwork.

Khan raised a brow as it crossed its arms, “Yes?”

Jay grins, unintentionally baring his fangs. “have you tried changing your appearance other than looking all scary like maybe your clothes? Your hair? Heck you could try looking entirely unrecognizable and become someone entirely new than well…” Jay looks up and down at Khan's armor and general attire with a raised brow. “That. I mean it does the job, but you could try something new for a change.”

“something… new?” Khan blinks as it hums thoughtfully at Jay’s idea. “But… I don't know what to wear? I've never thought of changing my attire since no one can even see me other than you… and well Dan.”

Jay, again held that mischievous and pure sparkle of excitement in his eyes. “Would you be willing to accept my help on picking your wardrobe? Who knows you might like whatever look you might end up in.

Khan doesn't respond, simply floating in front of Jay and looking into his eyes. “Khan?” Jay's demeanor changed instantly to cautious worry when he called out to his friend.

Khan snapped itself back before quickly responding, “I… I’ll give it a shot.”

Jay blinks a bit surprised that his friend agreed but quickly smiles as he jumps up from his office chair with child-like excitement, before taking Khan by the arm and dragging Khan to Jay’s workshop.

[xmenuniverse]

Kamala Khan in Ms. Marvel - Mutant Menace #2 (2024), art by Scott Godlewski.